The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 3

Six Cylinderé Exclusively . FIVE PASSENGER _ $985 fold, Goodyear and Lob Tires and Tubes Wé absolutely-have the best and most complete line of Tires and Tubes in Bates county. . Do away with your tire troubles and equip your car. with Lee Puncture Proof Tires ‘OIL > are Built, Buick will Build Them SEVEN PASSENGER $1485 3500 miles without a puncture Just received a shipment of - Save money by buying your oil in 5 and 10 gallon lots. Accessories, Storage, Gaselide and Free Air—Expert Mechanical Work Guaranteed Newlons — Day and Night Garage FISK’S OPERA HOUSE _ ONE NIGHT ONLY Friday, Oct. ist THE Broadway Amusement Co’s Unique Scenic Production of the supremely successful SONG PLAY FRECKLES Dramatized from Gene Stratton-Porter’s Novel } A DELIGHTFUL NATURE STORY Scintillating with WIT, MUSIC AND PATHOS ‘Endorsed by the Clergy of Every Denomination z Presented by 8 COMPANY OF PLAYERS. OF UNUSUAL EXCELLENCE Prices 25c, 75c, $1 SEATS ON SALE * at Fisk’s Shoe Store’ Phone 544 for Reserved Seats BLOOD ‘and BONE iy contates eg SISTERS SAVE 75 AT ORPHANAGE FIRE Mother Superior and Others of St. ‘Francis Home, Nevada, Mo., ‘ Lead Children Out. Nevada, Mo., Sept. 26.—St. Francis’ Orphans’ Home was de- stroyed by fire last night. Its 75 children, all of whom were in bed, were taken safely from the build- ing by Mother Superior St. John and the sisters. The loss is $75,000, including the building and contents, with $20,000 insurance. -The fire was caused by one of the children going into an upper story closet with a lantern. The “fire reached the roof and with- in an hour the building was in ruins. The fire apparatus responded promptly, but there was no water supply with high pressure, and the firemen were helpless. Much of the furnishings were saved, but the winter provisions, consisting of great quantities of canned fruits and vegetables were lost. The children were brought into the city in automobiles and spent the night in the N. G. M. Armory and Cole Bros. dry goods store. Meals were served them today in the Hotel Mitchell. Dr. J. F. Robinson, former sup- erintendent of State Hospital No. 3, tendered the use of a city build- ing near the Orphan’s Home and it was acdepted by the sisters. The citizens today took big bundles of clothing to the armory, and the children have an ample supply. : Two Horses Killed by Enraged Bull. Mt. Holly, N. J., Sept. 25.— Two valuable horses owned by County road Supervisor Stewart M. MacFarland have been killed by a vicious bull on his farm near here, The first attack took place when the bull and horse were in the banyard together. and the horse had no chance to escape, but before the second horse was killed the bull went right. through ‘the barnyard fence atid made the at- tack while the horde was in the lane. . ‘The bull has been stripped of ‘its hortis. The horses filled were worth $500, while the bull. is worth $75. os GENERAL NOTES Nine hours. after Wednesday's subway disaster several Broad- y movie theaters were showing films to packed houses. The Democratic state conven- tion in session at Baltimore, Md., ‘Thursday, warmly commended President Wilson for his conduct ‘of international affairs. The Official Gazette of the ‘Hungarian Government Thursday ‘printed a decree calling to the col- ‘ors all boys 18 years old, _ who re born in 1897 before October The body of Mrs. Josephine Bruguiere, of New York and San Francisco, one of the two Amer- jean victims of the Arabic dis- aster, was washed onto the Irish coast Thursday. Ike McDonald of Bluejacket, Ok. is exhibiting a hog that weighs 900 pounds at the Vinita, Okla., fair. McDonald bought the hog for $195 and has already won $260 in premiums on him. Miss Enid Nellie Shaw, daugh- ter of former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, was married to John Milton McMillin of New York Thursday in the residential suite of the Baltimore otel. Adam Morris, 31 years old, of Tulare, Cal., was arrested at the White House Thursday when he called to tell President Wilson how to end the sins of the world. Morris said he was in communica- tion with the heavenly powers. Gen, Venustiano Carranza, first chief of the constitutionalists, through his secretary, has notified John R. Silliman, special agent of President Wilson in Mexico that, he does not consider assistance by the Red Cross in Mexico any long- er necessary. Voters were bought for 10 cents, ‘‘the price of a drink,”’ in vember 1914, election, ac- cording .to Edward J. (‘‘Big Chief’’?) O’Leary who testified Friday in the trial of Mayor Jos- eph E. Bell, of Indianapolis, Ind., charged with election conspiracy. Stockton Wells, of Madison, N. J., member of the freshman class Jat Princeton University, died Thursday afternoon following an attack of heart disease, believed to have been caused either by ex- citement or by injuries suffered in the annual rush of the fresh- men and sophomore classes. Dr. Austin Flint, the alienist, whose testimony in the trials of Harry K. Thaw gained him the reputation of having done more to send the slayer of Stanford White to the asylum than any other man, died one day last week at his home in New York from a stroke of appoplexy. He was more than 79 years old. J. B. Duke, the tobacco mag- nate, has promised to give $100,- 000 a year'to the Methodist Epis- copal church, South, as long as he lives. Duke is still in his prime, and the church authorities con- vratulate themselves: on the prospects that the total donation will reach a large figure. Two indictments against eight men and two corporations holding who last June were convicted of defrauding the government of more,than $1,000000 in revenue’ tax on artificially colored oleo- margerine, were sentenced to serve two years each in the Peni- tentiary at Moundsville, W. Va. and fined:$1000 each by Federal District Judge J. R. Slater, at Columbus, O., Friday, , FATAL ACOIDENT NEAR ADRIAN, | Ira. Timmons Drawn Into a Silage Cutter and Fatally Injured. Monday Ira Timmons, a young man employed about a silage cut- ter on the farm of John Speer near Adrian, was badly mangled by a silage cutter, \In oiling the cutting knives from which he had removed the cover, his clothing became in some way entangled with the ma-! chinery and drew. him across the} revolving knives, He was badly cut on the shoulder and about the breast, the knives penetrating his lung. After being removed from the knives he was taken to the house and Dr. Floyd Bates of ‘Adrian summoned, who dressed . his| wounds and said that little hope could be entertained for his re- covery. A specialist was summoned from Kansas City in an effort to save his life but the knives had} cut too deep and nothing could be done. He died Wednesday morn- | ing about 3 o’clock. ‘Yaquis Burn Car and Kill 60 Persons. | San Diego, Cal. Sept. 26.—| Sixty passengers of a Southern} Pacific Mexican train were} thrown into a car containing hay and the car set on fire by a hand of Yaqui Indians Friday near| Torres, Sonora, according to radio | advices received today from Her-| mosillo, via Guaymas. | Only 20 passengers have been} accounted for, the others having} been burned to death. | The Indians numbered about 60} and were deserters from one of! the Mexican factional armies... | They derailed the train, which | was running from Campo Verde to Torres, after which they placed the passengers, most of whom were women and children, in thé| hay car and applied the torch. | So-far as is known, no Americans were on the train, Torres is a small town about 70 miles north of Guaymas and a junction point of the railroad, a spur tine running into the mining district where Campo Verde is lo-| cated. " Receiver for the M. K. & T. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 27.—Two suits for a receivership for the} Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-| road Company, a line with 4,050) miles of track in Missouri, Kan: | sas, Oklahoma and Texas, were filed and, combined in the United | States District Court today, and Judge E. B. Adams and Judge D. P. Dyer appointed E. Schaff, president of the road, as receiver. This is the fifth railroad system operating in St. Louis that is in the hands of a rtceiver. The oth- ers are the Wabash, Missouri Pa- cific and Iron Mountain, the Fris- co and the Rock Island.:’ All of! these linés with the exception of | the Rock Island, have general of-| fices in St. Louis. The Rock Is-} land’s headquarters are at Chi-| cago. | The bills- of complaint were: MISSOURI NOTES The enrollment in the’ Univer- sity of Missouri for the winter ses- sion is now, 2,728 an increase of 357 over last year. A $23,000 fire occurred at At- lanta, Macon County, early Satur- day-morning. The Baptist Church Was among the buildings burned. The twenty-fourth anuual con- vention of the Missouri State Fed- eration of Labor adjourned Fri- day at Moberly following the se- lection of Joplin for the 1916 con- vention. Steven Koelin, farmer, residing in Warren county, was. found dead in his field by his son. He was evidently killed by a vicious bull, which was in the field. The body was mangled. Solomon Bryson, 71 years old, was married Friday at Columbia to Mrs. Fannie Lewis, 60. Their home is at Sturgeon, Mo. ‘My boys and girls are all gone,’’ said Mr. Bryson, ‘‘and I’m tired of living-alone.’’ j The condition of Cole Younger, who has been ill for some time at the home of his nephew, Harry Hall, of Lees Summit, is not im- proved.« He is suffering from heart trouble and dropsy. Clayton Hill, 24 years old, a@ farmer, was found guilty of mur- der in tlfe second degree at Princton, Missouri, Saturday for the killing of his wife’ last February. He was sentenced to 20 years in’ the penitentiary. Governor Major received of- ficial notiet last week to the effect that a medal of merit had been awarded by the Panama-Pacific Exposition to N. C. Dalton, Chari- ton county, this state, for grow- ing corn. He grew 114 bushels on a single aere. Charles Seibel of Hannibal, was: - killed and his wife, Ed Seibel and his wife and Isabel Storer were in- jured Sunday when Charles Sei- bel lost control of his automobile, the machine plunging off a high culvert. Ed Seibel, who was in the seat with his brother, was hurt seriously. Fred G. Heckler, formerly | of Dalton, Mo., and a graduate of the University of Missouri, who since 1908 has been an instructor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute at Troy, N. Y., has been ap- pointed assistant professor of me- \chanical engineering in the Rens- selaer Institute. When Evelyn Helm, 25 years ~ old, refused to marry Lum Wil- hide, 52 years old, in Chicago Sat- urday, saying ‘* you're too old,’’ Wilhide shot her and then shot himself. Miss Helen is dead and _ Wilhide is dying. Miss Helm’s home is in Elmwood, Mo. ‘ Frederick Av Uhlich’ of 2001 Sa- lisbury street, St. Louis, Mo., who, had he lived until Nov. 20, would have been 100 years old, and was one of the pioneers in the organization and de- velopment of the Lutheran Church in the Middle West, died at 2:25 a. m., Saturday. Clyde Davis, circuit clerk of Ray county, at Richmond, Mo.,’ was killed and ‘several members of his family who were in his motor ear were severely injured when them responsible for the Eastland | filed by the Railway Steel Springs th car overturned on the Old disaster, in which nearly thousand men, women and chil- dren lost their lives om July 24,|K. & T., and D. B, Hussey of St. returning to Richmond. were returned Thursday by the federal grand jury at Chicago. The two indictments charge con- spiraey and negligence. Seven persons are known to have been killed and fifty injured Wednesday when ‘the excavating for @ new subway caused the col- lapse of about one and one-half blocks on Seventh Avenue, New York, into the new subway being cotstructed nearly fifty feet be- low, the surface. These figures wete based on the official state- ment given out by the police. Henry Ford, automobile manv- facturer rans ny Hon rere ae p engine for the use e Poeticns and aeroplanes of the d States army and . The nent was made a between bill of $16,609.95, against the M. | Louis who has a claim for $135,- 030.85 against the road for ties. | Haitiens Fire on U. 8. Marines. | ‘Washington, Sept. 23—A col-| umn of 50 marines and sailors was fired on Tuesday morning, according to a dispatch received at the Navy Department: today from Admiral Caperton at Haiti. The firing was done from am- bush by Cacos while the marines, under command of Maj. 8. D. But- ler, were marching from Gonaives tto Poteau. The American forces returned tht fire, killing one Ca- co. No American casualties were reported. Lives 79 Years in One Town * Gentryville, Mo., Sept. 26— Blisha Potter, who is 80 years old, here longer than any other \ He has lived in the heighbothood 79 years, mak- : Troe dae seem one | Company of Chicago, which has a | Trails road near Buckner Wed- nesday afternoon. The party was F. J. Wilkinson of Charleston has one farm on which he has raised a crop of wheat. and corn in the same year. As soon asthe wheat was harvested the land was planted in corn with the intention of furnishing fodder, but the corn is about matured and will be ready to harvest with a good yield before the first frost. This is thought to be a remarkable occur- rance for the country. Horses Afflicted with Hoof Disease. Platte City, Mo., Sept. 25.—The state veterinary department has caused to be quarantined many diseased horses of the British- Fremont Company at Lathrop. Rumors had been in circulation Mr. Ford and|claims the distinction of having|that a number of the horses were of incomplete burial of the. ani- mals were made. An investiga- tioh showed the horses were af- flicted with hoof disease and kept not —